Mark Johnson has led the University of Wisconsin-Madison to five national championships as head coach of its women’s hockey team. As a player, he holds the record for career goals by a Badger. Though he went on to play 11 seasons in the NHL, Johnson’s most famous achievement came as an amateur in Lake Placid, New York.
The University of Wisconsin women’s swimming team won the 800-yard freestyle relay on Day 1 of the Big Ten Conference swim and dive championships on Wednesday.
Former University of Wisconsin football head coach Barry Alvarez, who led the successful turnaround of the Badgers program during his 16 seasons at the helm, will be honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame.
The topline story in the New York Times “Sports Sunday” section of Feb. 9 likely brought a smile to anyone interested in women’s intercollegiate athletics. It concerned the robust rivalry between the women’s basketball teams at the University of Oregon and Oregon State Universities. A recent game drew more than 12,000 fans.
University of Wisconsin officials on Friday released ticket information for the Badgers’ non-conference football game against Notre Dame on Oct. 3 at Lambeau Field.
The UW-Madison rowing team spent the evening in a competition for a good cause.
For the first time since 1977, the Badgers have home-court advantage for the ITA Division I National Men’s Team Indoor Championship at Nielsen Tennis Stadium. Matches start Friday, with the championship on Monday.
It’s impossible to know how the Badgers’ all-time stats will look a decade down the road, but as of now, Roque and Campbell are building impressive legacies.
The cost of construction work at the University of Wisconsin’s three most prominent athletic facilities weighs heavily into an 18% budget increase requested by the athletic department for the next fiscal year.
Construction work on three capital projects designed to improve the Kohl Center, Camp Randall Stadium and the University of Wisconsin Field House is set to begin soon.
Target released a statement apologizing for some misprinted onesies bearing the name “Minnesota Badgers” in the familiar University of Minnesota maroon and gold, releasing a statement to WCCO-TV.
“Color us red,” the statement began. “As a Minnesota-based company, we know we are home to the Gophers.”
There wasn’t a playbook to follow as a small group within the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program tried to navigate the uncomfortable aftermath of Erik Helland using a racial epithet in front of players last month.
The spectator count for University of Wisconsin volleyball matches at the UW Field House has never been higher than it was during the 2019 season.
As the University of Wisconsin makes a final push to equal its U.S. women’s hockey attendance record in Sunday’s Fill the Bowl game at the Kohl Center, coach Mark Johnson said his players’ preparations can only go so far.
This was a day to reminisce, to celebrate the past and to honor a coach and a group of players who helped lay the foundation for the heights the Wisconsin men’s basketball program has since reached.
The abrupt resignation of Erik Helland, the strength and conditioning coach for the Wisconsin men’s basketball team for the last six-plus seasons, appears to have hit the players hard.
Words of support poured out for Erik Helland a day after he resigned as the strength and conditioning coach for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team.
The proposal, which Big Ten athletic directors submitted to the NCAA in October, calls for student-athletes across all sports to be allowed one transfer in their five-year eligibility window without sitting out a year-of-residence at their new school.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletics spokesman Patrick Herb said in a news release Thursday that Erik Helland, director of strength and conditioning, resigned his position Thursday afternoon. Helland had been the strength and conditioning coach for the Wisconsin men’s basketball program since 2013.
A University of Wisconsin men’s basketball strength and conditioning coach, Erik Helland, resigned Thursday after a school probe into allegations that he used a racial epithet around at least one Badgers player.
Erik Helland, the strength and conditioning coach for the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, resigned Thursday after officials concluded an investigation regarding his use of a racial epithet in front of players more than a month ago.
A University of Wisconsin-Madison men’s basketball coach resigned Thursday after the university confirmed he used a racial slur in front of players while telling a story about his time working in the NBA. It wasn’t directed at any specific players, the university said.
The Wisconsin Badgers won 10 games last year and earned a trip to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, where they lost by one point to the Oregon Ducks. That marked the final game of running back Jonathan Taylor’s University of Wisconsin career. He’ll go down as one of the program’s all-time greats.
UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank said college athletics’ “only alternative” in response to multiple states passing or considering laws allowing athletes to capitalize on their name, image and likeness is to seek clarity through federal legislation.
University of Wisconsin women’s hockey juniors Daryl Watts, Grace Bowlby and Breanna Blesi were chosen Tuesday as Western Collegiate Hockey Association players of the week.
Hilliard averaged 15.5 points, 8.5 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game with a .520 field-goal percentage as the Badgers split two conference games last week.
The UW Athletic Board met Friday afternoon and approved the following recommendations of the UW Department of Athletics regarding contracts for Paul Chryst, Kelly Sheffield and Paula Wilkins the university announced on Friday.
Pewaukee High School and University of Wisconsin product J.J. Watt gave comedy a swing as host of Saturday Night Live on Feb. 1, and it was a pretty successful debut in the late-night showcase.
In arguing a case for the University of Wisconsin to host the NCAA women’s volleyball championships at the Kohl Center, Badgers coach Kelly Sheffield comes armed with details.
In a promo for his hosting gig on this Saturday’s “Saturday Night Live,” Pewaukee native and former University of Wisconsin Badgers star J.J. Watt gets a “test” from “SNL” regular Kyle Mooney.
In the wake of news that Kobe King was leaving the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball team, another prominent player to move on from the Badgers program chimed in with some thoughts in a Twitter exchange.
“After talking with my family and friends I have decided that the best step for my future basketball aspirations, as well as my love for the game, is to immediately step away from the University of Wisconsin men’s basketball program,” King wrote. “This has been a very tough decision for me … however, after spending almost three years in the Wisconsin program I have realized that this program is not the right fit for me as a player and person.
The redshirt sophomore announced on his Instagram account this afternoon that “the best step for my future basketball aspirations, as well as my love for the game, is to immediately step away from the University of Wisconsin Men’s basketball program.”
Project meant to benefit student athletes.
Miller is in his second season at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has scored 11 goals and added 23 assists in 48 games over his two seasons with the Badgers. He was also an alternate captain for the United States in the 2020 IIHF World Junior Championship.
Former University of Wisconsin linebacker Chris Borland spoke harshly of the football program and his brief time in the NFL on a Netflix documentary released this week.
Noted: Separately, Lucas is a senior writer for UWBadgers.com, and has been a color commentator on University of Wisconsin football and men’s basketball games.
Despite a one-point loss to Oregon in the Rose Bowl, Wisconsin finished in the top 15 of both major polls.
The Badgers (10-4) finished No. 13 in the Amway coaches poll and No. 11 in The Associated Press poll.
Since releasing its Bucky’s Cherry Berry flavor, which was only available in the Badger State, in 2018, Klarbrunn has raised nearly $25,000 for the fund, which helps encourage positive health and nutrition habits in people of all ages.
With the sound of the University of Wisconsin Badgers facing off against the U.C.L.A. Bruins in the Rose Bowl blaring from a television in the background, Mr. Sensenbrenner readied his case that the president should be removed from office for lying about a sexual affair with a White House intern.
It’s fun to travel to a common destination with sports fans. There’s no need to conjure up an icebreaker with your seatmates and the mood is fun and light. Optimistic! How ‘bout those Badgers?
Former University of Wisconsin men’s basketball and track and field athlete Michael Jackson has been named associate athletic director by Director of Athletics Barry Alvaraez.
The Badgers host Big Ten Conference foe Indiana on Friday, Sept. 4 in the season opener, the first Friday game at UW since the 2018 opener against Western Kentucky.
He’ll join the UW staff on Monday, returning the number of deputy or associate athletic directors under Barry Alvarez to 10.
The reason for Cephus not playing in 2018 stemmed from an off-field issue. The University of Wisconsin announced in mid-August that Quintez Cephus had been reinstated and was again a student in good standing at the school, two weeks after being found not guilty on a pair of sexual assault charges and almost immediately seeking reinstatement.
There’s a rich history of running backs at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jonathan Taylor is the latest Badger to add to that legacy.
In addition to fans donning their “Beat Oregon” pins, the pep rally drew University of Wisconsin-Madison dignitaries like Chancellor Rebecca Blank and athletic director Barry Alvarez. Monday marked Alvarez’s 73rd birthday. Fans sang to him before he gave a rousing speech.
As a former Stanford student athlete and now a faculty athletic representative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I read “A Women’s Sport, Ruled by Male Coaches” (news article, Dec. 20) with great interest.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fell just short of winning “the Granddaddy of Them All” on Wednesday.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fell just short of winning “the Granddaddy of Them All” on Wednesday.
Many Badgers fans kicked off the new year in Pasadena watching the 131st Rose Parade.
“(I’m) not happy,” Badger fan Robert Hill said. “Oregon beat us in the Rose Bowl several years ago. We lost three in a row. It’s been since 2000 since we won one. Not a good start to the year.”
The lunch rush was escalating Tuesday inside the walls of the quaint Pie ‘n Burger restaurant along California Boulevard, with fans of the University of Wisconsin football team joining the queue.
Jerry Crostenberg has been perfecting his parade wave.Sometimes he has been seated atop his John Deere tractor baling hay, harvesting corn and doing other farm chores.
The date was Jan. 1, 2013. UW faced Stanford and athletic director Barry Alvarez was serving as interim head coach after Bret Bielema left for Arkansas. Alvarez wanted his grandsons – Jake and Joe Ferguson – to experience the game from the field.
Some Badgers fans spent their Sunday at the airport, catching flights to California for the Rose Bowl.Families sporting red crowded Dane County Regional Airport Sunday afternoon.
The countdown is on for the 2020 Rose Bowl as the Wisconsin Badgers prepare to take on the Oregon Ducks. At the same time, preparation is well underway for the Rose Parade, airing New Year’s Day on NBC15.
College football is all about traditions. As the sport celebrates the close of its 150th anniversary, the Wisconsin Badgers are headed to the Rose Bowl for the 10th time on New Year’s Day, where they will play the Oregon Ducks.
Oregon and Wisconsin are taking contrasting approaches to everything that comes before the Rose Bowl.
As the Wisconsin Badgers football team prepares to play against the Oregon Ducks football team in the Rose Bowl in California, fans in Wisconsin are cheering on the Badgers with Rose Bowl merchandise.
